Have you stepped in a public school classroom in recent years. What qualifies you to say public school educators are uneducated? Are you just being a snob with your expensive private schools The way you make it sound public schools should bow down to your superiority? It's absurd what you are saying here. Public school kids work just as hard but because some would have parochial schools bumped up a class due to what many feel are an unfair advantage you lash out calling them liberal and uneducated. This has got to stop. Stop crying foul when you have the best of both worlds. The options you have are not available to everyone. The parents that care about their children make sacrifices for the betterment of their children, you are not the only one. Peter Sierant from KC Turner sent this to me:
"If I took the worst ten percent of my school off the list of enrollment and replaced them with an elite ten percent, everyone would benefit. Public schools have not choice. Private ones do. Think of our athletic programs if we eliminated the worst 10 percent and replaced them with an elite 10 percent; for wrestling that would equate into a team trophy at state."
By the way Pete attended Rockhurst High School [1985] and teaches for an at-risk school district. There is a disparity.
I can't speak for all public schools but I know I bust my butt to make my kids better which includes working the kids hard, it's not just a religious puritan work ethic held exclusively to private religious affiliated schools.
We can agree to disagree on some things but when you call public school teachers uneducated you show your disdain for the public schools. You of course have that right to that opinion but please don't lump us all (by-in-large) under this category because you are wrong.
Uneducated on this particular topic. The advantage isn't as defined. The advantage comes from those who choose to send their kids to a private school not from wider population base. The penalty of a multiplier is unjustified and "uneducated". It is an overreaction. Furhermore, you know as well as I that there are public schools with programs that attract kids from outside of their district. What are we going to do about those? Olathe has open enrollment so kids can attend any of the Olathe schools are we going to give them a multiplier too? The point is that the penalty suggested is not all inclusive. Private schools just become an easy target.
I don't disagree with what you or Pete say but that issue is more of a rural versus metro area issue not a public versus private. I know kids who went to Southwestern Heights instead of Liberal even though they were in the Liberal school district but no one is looking to apply a multiplier to Southwestern Heights. Any program that has success will attract student athletes from outside of their normal boundries. Don't just single out private schools because you feel they are an easy target. If you think that is ok then I want a 100% tax credit for the property taxes I pay that I don't get to utilize. Again, you neglect to admit that a clear advantage to the public schools is that they receive ALL of the tax dollars paid by parents who send their kids to private schools and don't consume a single dollar of those resources. Argue that Brent. The classification system isn't broken, the public school system is. You cannot punish the private schools because you don't operate as good of a system. That is ridiculous.
Will,
You didn't make the uneducated quote very clear. If those that would have private schools bump up a class are uneducated then this whole discussion is about perception. If that were true you would have an argument but it's not. KSHSAA study on disparity shows there is something to the disproportionate amount of championships won by private schools. Other states add a multiplier to private schools. Characterize those thoughts the way you want to, but it holds water.
